Trousers-hanger.



E. I. PROUTY.

TROUSERS HANGER.

APPLIOATI ON FILED JAN. 5, 1912.

1,102,545, 1 Patented July 7, 1914.

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hanger of EDGAR I. PROUT Y, 0F ALBANY, OREGON.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented July a, 1914.

.fipplication filed January 5, 1912. Serial No. 669,522..

To all whom it may] Be it known that LEnoaitI. PROUTY, a

citizen of the United States, and a. resident.

of Albany, in the county of Lin and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers-Hangers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements .in hangers especially adapted to be used in holding trousers in a suspended condition", and the object of my invention is toprovide a hanger of this general character made of a single length of spring wire, including two s ring pressed armsv each carrying a flat woo en strip serving as a jaw and adapted to receive suitable advertising matter.

Another object 'is to provide a trouser neat and inexpensive nature and of compact and durable construction. which shall be capable of convenient adjustment upon a hook or nail to removablyreceive the flat folded leg ends of a air of trousers to hold the same in neat rea ily accessible suspended condition.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the'combination- ,and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally made within the scopeot the claim, wit .out

departing from the spirit of the invention.

. In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views: Fi re 1 is a erspec tive view of a trouser anger, em odying in invention. Fig. 2 is a section on line2, 2 0 Fig. I.

In my present invention, I aim to provide a trouser hanger having two non-rusting jaws between which the folded ends oi? the trouser legs are firmly clasped so that the garment may be held 1n a suspended condi tion.

tion, I employa carryin member made of spring metal wire which is tinned or galvanized to prevent rusting of-the same. In the drawing th numeral 1 represents a s ring c0ilfrom hich extend inspaced reation the two resilient stems, 2, 2. Each stem. is

In carrying out the object of my invertcontinued in an obliquely extending crooked arm, the upper portion of each arm being marked 3, while the lower portion of each arm is marked .4. As shown the arm portions 3 extend oblique to the stems and pass one another and are held in juxtaposition. The lower ends 4 of the crooked arms are held in parallel spaced relation. Each crooked arm ends in an oblong square spring loop 5, said loops extending at right angles to the stems 2. As shown in Fig. 1, each loop terminates in a counterpart crooked arm 6, ending in a securing coil 7 wound about the base of its connected stem 2 so that eaclt loop 5 is connected to its stem by a crooked arm of double thickness. The 100 s 5 are of a length so that they will slight y Y extend 0V61 the ends of the trouser legs when clamped u on the garment. ile the hanger 1S ma e of alvanized, tinned or plated material, in or rusting of the garments when they are suspended in a moist or damp condition, I provide the loops 5 with wooden jaws 9 As shown in Fi 2, each jaw 9 has a sklrting rabbet 8, an sprung into the rabbet are the loops 5. In order to further hold the wooden or other non-rusting jaws 9 to the loops, I em loy the staples 11. These aws perform a ouble function in that they are adapted to receive suitable advertising matter.

These trouser hangers can be very cheaply made, so that they can be given awa by tailors and others, in doing which the a vertiser prints or impresses suitable advertislng matter upon the outer faces of the wooden aws. I

ile the trouser hanger may be suspended by means of the s ing 1, I still provide the same with a hooli12 the lower end 10 of which I coil about the spring 1n the manner shown in the drawings.

The hanger is sim 1e and inexpensive in construction and bot durable and eiiicient in operation, and the device may be ad usted upon a garment with ease,

patch.

I-Iavin thus described my sald invention,

or to guard against accuracy and deswhat I c aim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

A device of the character described, com-v prising a member made of a single length of pain wire bent midlen h to form a s r ng rail rom which exten in spaced re atlon tam resilient stems each being continuedin an obliquely extending rooked am said crooked arms passing one amzgher and held in juxtaposition, the lower nds of said crooked arms being normally held in parallel relation, each crooked arm endin in an oblong spring loop said loops extenrfing atright angles nating in a counterpart crooked arm ending in a securing coil wound about the base of its connected stem, so that each loop is connected to its stem by a crooked arm of to said stems each loop termidouble in combination with two wooden jawseacli having a skirting1 into whiehsaid loops are sprung, an' to hold said loops to said jaws;- h a In testimon hereofI flix my signature, in presence 0 two witnesses.

. I. PRo T'Y,

means Witnesses NonL- B. MARTIN,

H.- O. Pnon'rr.

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